As Weaseal is hinting about, it seems as if your PATH isn't setup properly.. I don't use FreeBSD(or bash, all ksh here), but I kinda assumed they would copy a skeleton .profile over to each users home directory.

hmmm I did a fresh installation yesterday, installed bash and added user with bash as their default shell, so far every thing works fine.
I wonder the problem I faced was because of ~/.bashrc file that I added to change the prompt.

On bash which file should I edit to change the prompt? I like "$" prompt.

Install bash from the port and create user with bash as their shell. Is there any other thing I need to do to get bash working properly?

which shell would you guys suggest for daily use (I don't have X installed) including scripting. I'm not looking for some shell which provides too many fancy features (some basic should be there).

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

Personally, I use ~/.bash_profile. ~/.bashrc is not intended for login shells.

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Originally Posted by rex

Install bash from the port and create user with bash as their shell. Is there any other thing I need to do to get bash working properly?

Not really, other than customization.

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Originally Posted by rex

which shell would you guys suggest for daily use (I don't have X installed) including scripting. I'm not looking for some shell which provides too many fancy features (some basic should be there).

I use bash because many scripts work with it and does have quite a few features. If you don't want anything too fancy or don't want an extra port installed, then perhaps just stick with /bin/sh or /bin/tcsh (and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with either of those).